With Halloween just around the corner, Bill Robertson of Duke Center in McKean County, Pa. is presenting a free Golden Afternoons program on Ghost Hauntings at 1 p.m. this Tuesday, Oct. 8. 

Golden Afternoons is free and open to adults, 55 and older. No preregistration is required.

The program will be in the lobby at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro. Refreshments will be provided.

Robertson has written three new books since giving his Golden Afternoons program on ghost hauntings in October of 2023. 

“Ghosts Revisited 7” was released on Halloween Day last year and among its 22 stories contains a profile of Wellsboro horror filmmaker, Mark Polonia. “I’ll be showing several of the short videos Mark and I made together of local ghost stories. The videos can also be seen on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@williamp.robertson1884.”

Robertson will also discuss the three Tioga County stories from “Ghosts Revisited 8,” including the first-person accounts of ghostly happenings at the iconic “Penn Wells Hotel,” paranormal sightings at the “Blossburg State Hospital,” and the “Effie Goodwin Murder” about the brutal slaying of a housemaid in Mansfield by her estranged husband and her subsequent residence at the Allen Hall arts building at Mansfield University.

Robertson will talk about the monsters that can be found in the Keystone State in his third new book “Pennsylvania Strange,” a collection of 57 eerie tales of witches, ghosts, and monsters. Among the monsters are Bigfoot, the Squonk, the Waterford Sheepman, the Giwoggle, Green Man of Pittsburgh, Raystown Ray, the Albatwitch, and the Chester Ape Boy. 

He will have all eight of his Ghosts Revisited books and “Pennsylvania Strange” available for purchase at his Oct. 8 program.

A 42nd Bucktails Company I re-enactor, Robertson is an author best known for the 10 books in his Bucktails series about the Civil War, three French and Indian War novels, a Viking novel, seven volumes of short stories, 11 collections of poetry, three audio books and 13 e-books. He also wrote two volumes of local folk tales and ghost stories, “Fears Forever” and “Come in…” 

Born in 1950 in Bradford, Robertson graduated from Mansfield University in 1972 with a degree in English. Since college, he has worked in factories, taught high school English and has a successful house painting business. He began freelancing short stories, poetry and articles in 1978. His work has appeared in many magazines, e-zines and anthologies in the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Romania, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia. 

For more information about this Golden Afternoons program, call the Deane Center at 570-724-6220.